Improvement in hubs for carriage-wheels



Invento ALMON wAaNm d UNITED N STATES ALMON WARNER, OF HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HUBS FOR CARRIAGE-WHEELS. i

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 6l ,900,' dated February 5, 1867. i i

To alt whom it may concern Bo it known that I, ALMoN WARNER, of Hamden, in the county of- New Haven and State Vof Connecticut, have invented a' new Improvement in Hubs for Carriage-Wheels; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the' letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view of the hub of a wheel; Fig. 2, a side View; Fig. 3, a longitudinal central section, andin Fig. 4 a transverse central section. f

This invention relates to an improvement in the hub, the object being to more perfectly secure the spokes into the hub; and consists in the construction of a ring or metal center,

provided with mortises to receive the spokes,

and formed with flanges to bear upon the surface of a wooden hub, which passes through the center of the metal ring.

Heretofore, anges or plates have been arranged upon either side of the spokes; and the two plates bolted together through the spokes. By my invention this necessary bolting is entirely dispensed with.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my improvement, I `.will proceed to describe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the wooden hub, into which the axlebox is fitted in the usual manner. B is a ring of metal, in which are formed mortises a, to

receive thelower ends ofthe spokes, `anda corresponding mortise, d, is formed in `the wood to receive the tenon of the spoke.` The l ring B is formed with anges C Cuponl either side, to form a strong bearing npouthe wooden hub.

The two plates of the ring;cannot,by"any possibility, be loosened the onefrom the` other, as they may be when bolted together',

perfect wheel and thus is produced the most possible. i l y If preferred, a portion ofthe webs which connect the two plates, and form the morti'ses, may be left out, as seen in the lower portion of Fig. 4.; yet I prefer a web between each spoke.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

The combination of the ring B, formed with its mortises a and anges C C, witha wooden hub, A, substantially in the manner herein set forth.

ALMON WARNER.

Witnesses:

J oHN E. EAELE, JOHN H. SHUMWAY. 

